MP fears airport delays costing FIFO miners

A central Queensland federal MP says delays at Brisbane's Airport, combined with roadworks on the Bruce Highway, are a major burden on the resources industry.

The Brisbane Airport Corporation is constructing a second runway to ease congestion at the site but it will not be completed for another eight years.

The Opposition's Member for Flynn, Ken O'Dowd, says several areas in the electorate, including Gladstone, rely on fly-in, fly-out (FIFO) workers.

He says the delays in Brisbane are having a knock-on effect.

"Must be costing the industry a lot of money and in turn if it costs the industry a lot of money, it's costing the people of Gladstone and the people who work here in Gladstone, the fly-in and outs, a lot of money to spend flying around in circles," he said.

He says with regular delays on the Bruce Highway, transient workers are left with few options.

"There's two ways mainly people can get to Gladstone, one by air or one by road and both are lacking at the moment because the amount of downtime that the airline industry is suffering through circling into a pattern until you're given permission to land - [it] must be costing the industry a lot of money," he said.